gosh oh gee...i get a chance to contribute a little something ....what i did was sew very thin stainless steel spring wire to the foot of the sail....one hardly sees it...can't remember where i got it...i know i had to work to straighten it....actually i had to heat it with a torch to soften it a bit to straighten.......

as long as there is some tension on them they should not give too much, besides thats exactly how the real sail would behave

that's it hat i need to control.

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gosh oh gee...i get a chance to contribute a little something ....what i did was sew very thin stainless steel spring wire to the foot of the sail....one hardly sees it...can't remember where i got it...i know i had to work to straighten it....actually i had to heat it with a torch to soften it a bit to straighten.......

lucc you can try the loop by just running a piece of string from the clew forward through a gunport across the deck and through another gunport back to the clew and see how it works.
i`d be really interested in the result
The reason why i don`t like a wire (which is teh sollution i used) was that teh wire would get stuck on the shrouds giving teh foot of teh sail much less rotation than the yard and causing it to go aback very early and acting as an airbreak more than propulsion..